B. B. Andersen on Survivor: Borneo

It's hard to believe that the next season of Survivor starts just a week from now. So this will be my last random blog post until this season is over. What's weird is that I have other random blog posts written already for the next hiatus. This will be the last random blog post for this hiatus and I've been rewatching Survivor: Borneo to get the notes for and about it. Enjoy my future posts about Survivor 31. And enjoy this special recap of B. B. Andersen's time on Survivor: Borneo.

We get to another blog post of mine where I remember a dearly departed Survivor contestant. Today’s contestant is B. B. Andersen from Survivor: Borneo. I will go through his time in the game and point out what made him a memorable contestant. I’ll also keep the memory of him alive by doing so. As with the first deceased player, I will be doing a drinking game with B. B. I offer the disclaimer that drinking games are played at one’s own risk and I take no responsibility for any drinking games played. The game is to take a shot every time his name is mentioned, he gets a confessional, he casts a vote, gets a vote against him, and similar things.

Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments Special

Due to the even spread of all the contestants in the special, B. B. doesn’t get much airtime. They basically show his abrasive personality and then show him getting voted out. I probably took less shots than I should have. But, I will definitely make sure that I take the shots during the actual episodes themselves. Guess that there’s not much to say regarding this. Shots taken: 13?

Episode 1: The Marooning

Here is when we get to the episodes that feature B. B. Andersen. I’ll be sure to count the number of confessionals that he had in the game and hope that it matches up with the number I already told you about when I first blogged about the first season. B. B. is introduced as a real estate developer. He goes out with Ramona to look for the water hole for the Pagong tribe. After an hour has passed, they are able to find it. B. B. starts doing a lot of work on and for his tribe, although it tends to aggravate them more than help them. This leads to arguments with Gretchen who seems concerned about him, but he is a bit bullheaded with that. He is able to use his glasses to help create fire for his tribe. He has two confessionals this episode. He is the contestant who is given the immunity idol after his tribe wins the challenge this episode. For B. B., this would be his only immunity win and only challenge win shown since the reward challenge in the next episode gets edited out. He is mentioned on the next time on Survivor segment. Shots taken: 6

Episode 2: The Generation Gap

I know that if I do my drinking game, I’ll be taking a lot of shots during this episode as this is when B. B. is voted out. Of course, I might just say that I’ve taken shots when I haven’t. B. B. is mentioned in the previously on Survivor segment. B. B. “helps” his tribe get stuff done. Everyone complains about him. He gets a confessional out of it (so it everyone else on the tribe it seems). He then gets two more confessionals, one about Ramona. It seems like a lot of this episode is just about people complaining about B. B. He has a disagreement about washing his shirt. He gets another confessional out of it. He then gets a confessional about wanting to leave the game. That’s five confessionals so far. He gets another after the immunity challenge where he talks about who he might vote for. Some people give reasons as to why B. B. should stay, but most want him out of the game. He winds up with seven confessionals before tribal council happens. His only vote in the game is against Ramona which gets him a confessional. He voted against the person he thought did the least around camp. Meanwhile, Gretchen, Jenna, Joel, Gervase, Colleen, and Ramona all vote against B. B. This is what gets him voted out. He then gets one last exit confessional. He leaves the game with nine confessionals that I counted this time. Shots taken: 32?

Future Episodes

So you might be wondering what I can mention about B. B. in future episodes now that he is voted out of the game. Well, obviously he appears at the reunion show. But until then, I’ll mention any reference that he has in any other episode. I probably won’t take any shots at this point as there’s no reason to keep drinking for the same bottle until the reunion show. He may be mentioned a lot at first in the next episode (simply because they are recapping his elimination), but other than that, he probably won’t be mentioned much throughout the game. Regardless, I’m still going to take notes about him.

In the third episode of the season, B. B. is of course mentioned in the previously on Survivor segment. That would make about four shots in that one segment and another when he is seen on screen during the introduction. One of Jeff’s transitional segments, something that would be nice in today’s show, mentions B. B. again. So that would be six shots in that episode.

In the fourth episode of the season, he isn’t mentioned at all. What is interesting is that the only person he cast a vote against in the game gets voted out in this episode the very next time his tribe went to tribal council. Jeff incorrectly says that she had three votes cast against her then, but in actuality, she only had two votes. I don’t expect for B. B. to be a part of any of these episodes in the future, but I’ll still include notes about them for now.

In the fifth episode of the season, as expected, the only bit of B. B. that we see is in the opening credits of the show. He’s not important to this episode and I can’t think of any interesting ways to tie him into the episode at hand.

In the sixth episode of the season, he is once again not mentioned at all and I’m including this useless paragraph. Awesome, right? I’m not sure if I’ll keep adding useless paragraphs or not throughout the rest of the game until the reunion show, but I might.

In the seventh episode of the season, the only bit of B. B. we see remains a clip of him that we see in the Survivor introduction segment. That’s all we’ll see of him and likely all we ever will see until the reunion show happens. I just hope that I can keep finding different ways of telling people that.

In the eighth episode of the season, people still in the game get videos from their loved ones (except for poor Jenna). You do have to wonder who B. B.’s loved one would have been if he were still in the game. Rumor has it that he bribed a cameraman and was already back in America having broken sequester. It’s unknown if that rumor is true or not. We don’t know who all would have broken sequester. I imagine that Jenna Moresca did in All-Stars. I don’t know who else might have.

In the ninth episode of the season, the winner of the reward challenge (and one person that the winner chooses to join them) wins a letter from home. Not much is seen of the letters. One has to wonder who B. B. would have gotten a letter from if he had lasted this long in the game.

In the tenth episode of the season, there’s yet another reward challenge that has a loved ones connection. Well, it doesn’t have to, but it probably would in the end some way. Whoever won the reward would get to call someone of their choosing. You would have to wonder who B. B. would have called if he were still in the game. He probably would have called his wife or something like that.

In the eleventh episode of the season, we get to the last reward to have a loved ones connection. Whoever won the challenge would be surprised to find their loved one on the yacht that they had won a night on. Like other rewards, you’d think that B. B.’s wife would have been the person there if he was still in the game.

In the twelfth episode of the season, the reward challenge is the only one of the season that doesn’t have a loved ones relation. But if he were still in the game, he would have seen the beginning of the season ahead of its premiere.

In the thirteenth episode of the season, B. B. is mentioned at the final four immunity challenge fallen comrades. The question relates to just the boot order of Pagong and not the whole season. Of course, I know that the boot order of the whole season is Sonja, B. B., Stacey, Ramona, Dirk, Joel, Gretchen, Greg, Jenna, Gervase, Colleen, Sean, Sue, Rudy, Kelly, and Richard. You have no way of knowing that I knew that from memory, but I did. He is also briefly seen at the rites of passage, although it wasn’t as good then as it would become later. Nowadays, we don’t even have it in the game anymore. There would be just two shots in this episode.

Episode 14: Survivor: Borneo reunion show

B. B. is introduced with the other contestants after the cold open of the reunion show. An introduction for the contestants is something that I wished still happened. He does get to talk about being the first person voted out of his tribe. He admits that it was a dumb move to “quit” the game. He also mentions alliances and how he thinks that it’s a good idea, even though it didn’t help the rest of his tribe in the end. There was a potential rivalry that might have been unseen that took place between B. B. and Joel. It doesn’t seem like there’s any footage that I saw that supports this. While on the show, he did a commercial for Reebok and the two men he did the commercial with appear briefly in the audience. I’m not sure what else there is to mention about this. Shots taken: 7?

Other Notes Regarding B. B. Andersen

Challenge history of B. B.- Quest for Fire (combined reward/immunity challenge): the contestants must lit a series of fire before the other tribe gets a chance to. B. B. won the challenge with the rest of his tribe. It makes for a great opening Survivor challenge and it’s a shame that it isn’t used anymore.

Unknown challenge (reward): won by Pagong and, thus, B. B. The challenge wasn’t seen in the episode and to me knowledge wasn’t released in any official format so it’s unknown for a fact what it was and how it went down. We just know that Pagong won the challenge. Bugging Out (immunity challenge, more commonly called the gross food eating challenge, officially called Survivor Smorgasbord): This challenge had the contestants face off to eat a bunch of gross food. This is B. B.’s only challenge loss as he would not survive past this episode’s tribal council. This challenge had every contestant having to eat just one bug (in this case, a live grub) in less everyone did. If they did all eat it, there would be a tie-breaker challenge.

A special feature on the DVD of Survivor: Borneo has B. B. doing a top ten on the Late Show with David Letterman with the rest of the cast from his season. His entry on the list, which is number nine, is this: “After being in tropical sun for a few days, chicks begin thinking you’re Brad Pitt.”

Well, those are my thoughts regarding B. B. Andersen from Survivor: Borneo. Remember that I will eventually go through other dead Survivor contestant’s time on the show as the deaths happen. For now, this means waiting until Survivor: Blood versus Water is on DVD so I can summarize Caleb Bankston’s game. I’m not sure if he’ll be next or not. But I’ll be sure to keep doing Survivor blog posts regardless of what happens. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.